11 \o/
Happy new year, everybody!
My family and I drove two hours both ways to attend a wake on the very first day of January. She was my brother's godmother, and was a close family friend for many, many years. She was bedridden for a month and a half after a botched hysterectomy, and it was the most depressing thing ever to sit at her bedside for a couple of hours when we came to visit on December 28th. She died on the 30th. She was sweet and funny and bright and so, so loving. She will be desperately missed.
I'm trying really hard to stop thinking of her death and spending three hours at a wake as a sign of things to come in 2011. The joy of the 31st is going to bleed onto 2011 - I know it, because I'm going to make it happen.
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The 31st was particularly awesome because:
I got my new baby! This was how I christened Photo Booth - with my crazy dad who took pictures of me while I opened the MacBook box for the first time lulz
:D :D :D :D :D
It's so pretty and sleek and shiny and fast, omg, even after three days of being on it, I'm still not quite used to it. I have a DVD drive that isn't broken! I can watch HD videos! I can actually run more than three programs at a time and not have everything be slow as shit! I can install CS5 and make gifs! I have more than 30gb of hard drive space all to myself! I have working speakers! I have an actual portable laptop that I don't have to keep plugged in all the time! I can run iTunes without fearing airplane noises! I don't have to live every day in fear of my beloved machine breaking down and finally dying on me! I feel so free!
I'm kind of sad that I didn't get to say a real goodbye to my old baby, though - my tried and true Toshiba that was loyal to me for four and a half years just up and fried its video card on the 30th, and that was that. That thing was with me through all the highs and lows of my entire undergraduate career, through thousands of hours of flailing, through literally everything that I ever felt or wrote or cried about. Even at its worst, I loved it, and I won't be able to use it ever again. :( I'ma pour a forty for you, old friend.
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I never make new year's resolutions, but I'm kind of… setting a new goal for myself, I guess? I'm not allowing myself to buy/download any new books until I finish the heap of unread ones sitting in my room.
There are SO MANY of them, and the neglect really needs to stop. /o\ I feel like I'm missing so much by just letting them sit there, and that the internet is making me more and more stupid every day. I need to relearn how to sit through real literature without falling asleep. I need to live up to my online handle when I was twelve - bookworm48, lolololol. Mostly I just really, really miss words and how powerful they can be. They have always been the only magic I really, truly believed in, and I want them back in my life.
Also, I'm getting myself something truly, incredibly special if I manage to finish 50 books this year.
***
It's 2011, holy shit, where did all the time go?????
I don't really have strong feelings about 2010, but I'm determined to make 2011 memorable. Big things are happening for me this year - I'm pretty sure I'm starting a temp job by the end of January, I'm officially graduating in April, and my first year of med school is starting in June. I'm turning twenty-three this year, fuck.
Needless to say, I'm excited. :D Here's to a great new year for all of us. <3 <3 <3
My family and I drove two hours both ways to attend a wake on the very first day of January. She was my brother's godmother, and was a close family friend for many, many years. She was bedridden for a month and a half after a botched hysterectomy, and it was the most depressing thing ever to sit at her bedside for a couple of hours when we came to visit on December 28th. She died on the 30th. She was sweet and funny and bright and so, so loving. She will be desperately missed.
I'm trying really hard to stop thinking of her death and spending three hours at a wake as a sign of things to come in 2011. The joy of the 31st is going to bleed onto 2011 - I know it, because I'm going to make it happen.
***
The 31st was particularly awesome because:
I got my new baby! This was how I christened Photo Booth - with my crazy dad who took pictures of me while I opened the MacBook box for the first time lulz
:D :D :D :D :D
It's so pretty and sleek and shiny and fast, omg, even after three days of being on it, I'm still not quite used to it. I have a DVD drive that isn't broken! I can watch HD videos! I can actually run more than three programs at a time and not have everything be slow as shit! I can install CS5 and make gifs! I have more than 30gb of hard drive space all to myself! I have working speakers! I have an actual portable laptop that I don't have to keep plugged in all the time! I can run iTunes without fearing airplane noises! I don't have to live every day in fear of my beloved machine breaking down and finally dying on me! I feel so free!
I'm kind of sad that I didn't get to say a real goodbye to my old baby, though - my tried and true Toshiba that was loyal to me for four and a half years just up and fried its video card on the 30th, and that was that. That thing was with me through all the highs and lows of my entire undergraduate career, through thousands of hours of flailing, through literally everything that I ever felt or wrote or cried about. Even at its worst, I loved it, and I won't be able to use it ever again. :( I'ma pour a forty for you, old friend.
***
I never make new year's resolutions, but I'm kind of… setting a new goal for myself, I guess? I'm not allowing myself to buy/download any new books until I finish the heap of unread ones sitting in my room.
There are SO MANY of them, and the neglect really needs to stop. /o\ I feel like I'm missing so much by just letting them sit there, and that the internet is making me more and more stupid every day. I need to relearn how to sit through real literature without falling asleep. I need to live up to my online handle when I was twelve - bookworm48, lolololol. Mostly I just really, really miss words and how powerful they can be. They have always been the only magic I really, truly believed in, and I want them back in my life.
Also, I'm getting myself something truly, incredibly special if I manage to finish 50 books this year.
***
It's 2011, holy shit, where did all the time go?????
I don't really have strong feelings about 2010, but I'm determined to make 2011 memorable. Big things are happening for me this year - I'm pretty sure I'm starting a temp job by the end of January, I'm officially graduating in April, and my first year of med school is starting in June. I'm turning twenty-three this year, fuck.
Needless to say, I'm excited. :D Here's to a great new year for all of us. <3 <3 <3